The cataclysmic conquests of the eleventh century are here set together for the first time.
Eleventh-century England suffered two devastating conquests, each bringing the rule of a foreign king and the imposition of a new regime. Yet only the second event, the Norman Conquest of 1066, has been credited with the impact and influence of a permanent transformation. Half a century earlier, the Danish conquest of 1016 had nonetheless marked the painful culmination of decades of raidi...
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Rebecca Thomas is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Cardiff University.
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